Word: briefing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...appointments. Churchmen put him down as an able administrator and a conservative. There is so little about him that is reminiscent of his predecessor's eloquent and influential liberalism that many wondered last week if the appointment meant that the Church of England was swinging back from the brief near-socialism of William Temple to the Toryism of Cosmo Gordon Lang...
...gave up a reporter's "dream job" as roving political correspondent for the Times, moved in as assistant to Managing Editor Edwin L. James. Born in Mississippi and brought up there, journalistically, on a handset weekly paper, Catledge has been a Timesman since 1927, except for a brief, unfortunate period as chief correspondent, then editor-in-chief of the Chicago Sun during its uncertain infancy...
...After a brief introduction by Theodore Spencer, associate professor of English, Hughes launched into the long saga of his life--working across Europe, washing dishes in Harlem, attending Columbia, traveling to Mexico and experiencing various other Ulyssesian adventures. "This," he said, "is an answer to the question of how I write my poetry...
Intramural basketball teams will swing into action again next week after the brief vacation break. Still setting the pace for the nine-team league is the combined F-G NROTC outfit with an unblemished 3-0 slate...
...daughter of the Infante Don Carlos (brother-in-law of the late King Alfonso), and first Spanish princess to be married in her native land since Spain went republican. The tall, mustachioed groom was the great-grandson of Dom Pedro II, second (and last) of Brazil's brief line of Portuguese emperors. When the second Dom Pedro abdicated the Brazilian throne in favor of a republic, his family lived in France until Brazil relented in 1920, welcomed home the house of Bragança. His great-grandson takes his royal status seriously, but does not expect to become...